Program

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8:30am: Breakfast

Morning Session

9:00am: Opening Remarks
Dr. Gillian Small
Vice Chancellor for Research, The City University of New York

9:10am: Dr. Carole Bewley
Chief, Natural Products Chemistry Section, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Using Structural Biology to Study and Inhibit HIV Entry

10:00 am: CUNY Faculty Presentations
Nancy Greenbaum  (Hunter)
  RNA Structural Biology: Role of Noncoding RNAs in Gene Expression  
Frida Kleinman  (Hunter)
  Functional and mechanistic connections between RNA 3’ end processing and DNA damage response  
• Lesley Davenport  (Brooklyn)
  Conformational Studies of G-Quadruplexed DNA
Peter Lipke  (Brooklyn)
  Force-dependent activation of functional amyloid domains increases cell adhesion in yeasts  

11:00 am: Coffee Break

11:15 am: CUNY Faculty Presentations
• Ruel Desamero  (York)
  Probing Biomolecular Structure and Function with Vibrational Spectroscopy
• Marilyn Gunner
• Rick Magliozzo
• Fred Naider
• Sebastien Poget  (CSI)
  Use of phospholipid bicelles for solution NMR studies of highly dynamic membrane proteins

12:30 pm: Lunch

Afternoon Session

1:30 pm: Dr. Ward Smith
Chief, Structural Genomics and Proteomics Technology Branch, NIGMS, National Institutes of Health
NIH Funding Opportunities for Structural Biology Research

2:30 pm: Poster Session

4:00 pm: CUNY Faculty Presentations
• Emmanuel Chang
  Mass Spectrometric Technology in Structural Biology
• Ronnie Ghose
• Glendon McLachlan
  Structural features of spider-silk mimetics in aqueous and non-aqueous solvents: insights in the fold of a complex material
• Ruth Stark